Saturday, 25 May 2013

Terrorist threats from foreign aliens that could
upset the whole of the United States. And then Martial Law is to be established
to protect the country for an indefinite duration ensuring that all of its
citizens and there properties be protected, any undesirable will be brought
into custody for questioning, all the citizens are being asked not to be afraid
of being rounded up and to comply with the issuing Executive Order 903813,
titled Emergency Defense Procedures and Allocation of Interim Authority Martial
Law. This to me sounds and feels heavy but not heavy handed who in their right
mind and position would be expecting their president, prime minister to be doing
everything humanly possible to protect them?

The number one priority
of this government is to safeguard the interests of the country, and its
citizens, and any threat from foreign or domestic terrorism will be dealt with
to the full force of our powers.

I can only say at this stage that Andrew Scorah has
me hooked right from the beginning of the first chapter and I have not stopped
reading and re-reading just in case that I have missed an action somewhere, it
is fast paced, you’ll want to go back to make sure that what you have read is
REAL, IT IS HAPPENING just like a movie. You’ll not want to leave your seat or
make that cup of coffee or tea.

It’s raw, rough, tough, but for whatever reason the
government was rounding up citizens from across small townships, they are all
left stunned, shocked, battered and bruised and their homes lost for always.
But I will let you read Jericho Blues to find out why. And who and what had
assassinated the president of the USA.

“We need to find out what is happening,” I said as I turned on the
radio. I dialled through the frequencies, but all I got was static, or a tone
similar to what you get when you dial a disconnected number.

So far it seems that the country is in disarray, more like martial law enforcement
where no one or anything is exempt from the break-down of Statute Law that is
set by the House of Senators, this is Military Law at its worst or best? Only
you the reader can decide.

Six black clad bodies, armed with Heckler and Koch machine pistols. They
moved, silent, bent legged up the road. As if by some unspoken signal, four
split from the group. Two were going to the left of the house, the others to
the right. Once again we had a professional hit team coming for us. The
remaining four moved around the van. I had to time this right. I edged over so
I could see them better. They were mugs, not one paid any attention to the Van.
In a combat situation, never assume, assume makes an ass out of you and me; I
had the phrase drilled into me so many times; it became a mantra to put me to
sleep at night.

One of the assassins pulled a gas grenade from his utility belt and
pulled the pin. Now the time was right. I put a round in his ankle, half
blowing off his booted foot. He collapsed, dropping the grenade.

When I read this passage from Jericho Blues I was on
the brink of taking a break but Andrew kept me right where I am sat now! I
wanted to know what the heck was going on. You get drawn into intrigue and
mystery as to why Martial Law has been imposed on a Nation yet here it seems
that even Martial Law has broken down. There are renegade factions within the
Military with their own laws and lawlessness on the innocent citizens and military
personnel, and it is getting REAL personal. The next thing you know there is an
announcement from the White House and the President Lecompte

People of the United States
of America, it is with great sorrow I stand before you today, making this, my first
address to you. I have only just learned an evil has befallen the city of San
Francisco. Despite all our efforts to safeguard you the people, terrorists have
detonated several dirty bombs. The death toll is massive, and for all purposes,
the city has been wiped off the map. The resulting explosions triggered a
failing of the San Andreas Fault; earthquakes have been widespread and
continuing, hampering the efforts of emergency responders.

Reports are also coming in of dirty bomb explosions in several other
cities around the globe. Notably Manchester, England, Paris France, Sydney,
Australia and Moscow. So far, no one has claimed responsibility, but all
intelligence is focused on finding these monsters.

This is a colossal
misfortune to befall our country, and the world, ever. However, be forewarned;
our anger at these atrocities is biblical. The perpetrators and those who give
them their orders will be hunted down like dogs. We are now on a war footing,
and as such hard decisions will have to be made, law-abiding citizens will have
nothing to fear. Those who pose a threat to our way of life I give you this
message, run, because we are coming for you. There is no place for you to hide,
we will find you, and have our justice.

Whatever you do when you get to this part of the
book DO NOT go and make a meal (call for a takeaway instead) you will not want
to leave this part at all. This is where all the action starts. How on earth
did this get to the stage of it affecting the World as a whole? What went
wrong? Who went wrong? How on earth did the fractions cause so much
devastation, destruction wiping out San Francisco’s City and causing the bomb
to go off on the infamous San Andreas Fault? Earthquakes, Andrew draws you in
and at times you can only imagine what and how such things could and can
happen. Do not leave your seat or go to sleep yet! It’s not over yet!

Dirty bombs, dirty tricks it’s all here within the
covers of Jericho Blues

Sleep depuration, hunger, battling against the
wounds of battle

“We are known as the Council of Three Hundred, and
if all goes well you are going to be President of the United States after the
next elections.”

“What would you say if I told you, life is an
illusion Michael?”

Is
life an illusion? Are we all living a life of dreams, fantasies? Is life
truthful? Are we being deceived by those that we trust the most? Who is trying
to impress upon us the truth or lies, cheating and deceitfulness? Is the
Council of Three Hundred like the corrupted or are just painting pretty picture
of a better world? Read on Andrew had me hooked

Who is the Council of Three Hundred? What do they
do? What do they want of Michael? Besides being the next President of the
United States of America, how does this organisation affect the world as a
whole? Will and do they influence the political face of the world? Would it be
one party that rules dismissing democratic polling? Fixed voting? Can this
create further political unrest, citizens demonstrating against the one party
system without choice and losing their Human Rights?

Read on further, further, deeper and deeper the
plots thicken and you wonder when and where it will all end

Can the Leaders of the Free World come together as
one and face all the issues that are dominant and dominating and not plunge us
into a Third World State? Only time will and can tell of the outcome with their
extension, exhausted talks.

Andrew’s Jericho Blues is an awesome read

I am going to leave the rest up to you to read at your
leisure and pleasure

Andrew this novel has my 5*****’s not only for
content, but also for keeping me glued and having read it twice and I am
positive that I am coming back for more in the very near future. And I am also
looking forward to your follow up to Jericho Blues too.

Below is the link that takes you to Andrew Scorah
novels they are a must purchase whether it be kindle or paperback edition he
has not left anything out of either

Friday, 24 May 2013

First
I would like to say thank you for having me on your site, it’s a pleasure to be
here. When not writing, I’m like anyone else. I love spending time with my
family, reading, listening to music. My secret vice though is singing on
Karaoke, don’t tell anyone though or I’ll have to send the boy’s round.

2.Do
you have a day job as well?

No,
I’m a house husband at the moment, so this gives me plenty of time to write.

3.When
did you first start writing and when did you finish your first book?

I
first began as a teenager, I won a competition in school, and that’s what got
me hooked. Life kind of got in the way until a couple of years ago when I
decided to take it up again.

4.How
did you choose the genre you write on?

I
think the genre kind of chose me, I guess because of the books I enjoy reading
as well.

5.Where
did you get your ideas from?

I
could say the voices in my head gave me my ideas but they stopped talking a
long time ago...only joking. I wanted a hero that was tough but human also,
with human foibles etc. That’s how my main character, Jimmy Dalton came to be,
he is an ex soldier from a gang land back ground, but he’s also damaged by his
experiences. He has the skills to get the job done but he sure isn’t happy
about what he has to do.

6.Do
you ever experience writer’s block?

Not
so far, I think if you have the story in your head or fully realised down on
paper you should be okay.

7.Do
you work with an outline or just write?

I
have the basics of the story in my head, then I let the story take me where it
wants to go, I did try planning it out but for me this did not work.

8.Is
there any particular author or book that influenced you in any way either by
growing up or as an adult?

During
my youth, I read a lot of pulp fiction, especially The Destroyer Series by
Warren Murphy, and Richard Sapir, Robert Ludlums Bourne books, long before they
became celluloid hits. I also guess the ones that had the most effect on me
were by Eric Van Lusbader, and Marc Olden. These featured an East meets West
scenario, with lots of Martial Arts action, this led to my love for the Martial
Arts and Eastern philosophy. I spent about fifteen years training in various
arts before I was hit by a car and could not train anymore because of damaged
knees.

9. Can you tell me about your challenges in
getting your first book published?

The
only real challenges I faced was in getting the formatting correct, and the
appropriate cover, then marketing, biggest challenge of all.

10. If you had to go back and do it all over, is
there any aspect of your novel or getting it published that you would change?

I
think the only thing I would change is learning as much as I could about the
self-publishing industry before putting my first book out, but if ifs and ands
were pots and pans there would be no need of tinkers, as my Nana used to say.
We live and learn, and move on.

11. How do you market your work? What avenues have
you found to work best for your genre?

I
don’t think there is any one avenue that works best, Facebook, Twitter, I use
them both plus my own blogspot. No idea which works best, sales have happened
when I have not marketed and other times when I have, I have had no sales. Go
figure.

12. Have you written a book you love that you have
not been able to get published?

Not
yet but I am sure there will be one in the future.

13. Can you tell us about your upcoming book?

My
next book will be the sequel to Jericho Blues, which I have just published, it
will be called Jericho Blues-Hour of the Wolf.

14. Is anything in your book based on real life
experiences or purely all imagination?

It’s
all imagination, although there are some people out there who claim they have
experienced some of the events in Jericho Blues.

15. What was your favourite chapter (or part) to
write and why?

That’s
a hard one, i have no favorites, I loved them all.

16. How did you come up with the title?

In
Jericho Blues an elite group of families who have been ruling the world from
behind the scenes step out of the shadows and bring down society as we know it
just like Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho in the Bible.

17. What project are you working on now?

I’m
working on Hour of the Wolf, and a novel called Drakesh, which is a horror.

18. Will you have a new book coming out soon?

It
will be another couple of months before my next release.

19. Are there certain characters you would like to
go back to, or is there a theme or idea you’d love to work with?

There
are no characters, except maybe Paulie from Homecoming Blues, but I killed him
off, as for themes and ideas, wherever my muse takes me I shall follow.

20. What has been the toughest criticism given to
you as an author? What has been the best compliment?

I’ve
had a couple of bad reviews, but I don’t let them bother me, as far as I’m
concerned all reviews are good, best compliment was my character, Jimmy Dalton
being likened to Jack Reacher if he had come from a British working class
background.

21. Do you have any advice to give to aspiring
writers?

Write,
write, write, read, read, read. Never give up on what you do, develop a thick
skin because some people will hate what you do, while others will love it, and
always be open to advice. You never stop learning in this game, never think you
know it all, because you don’t and probably never will, learn the rules then
know when to break them.

22.Is
there anything that you would like to say to your readers and fans?

All
those who have read my work i would say a big thank you, and you shall get your
rewards in heaven, peace out.

Thank you Andrew for being here on this site and it has been a pleasure to get to know you as well especially as an author. I for one will be waiting for your follow up to Jericho Blues as I have read it and could not put it down either.

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